Analyzing the Form of Nineteenth-Century Poetry

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1

A limerick is a poem marked by what features?

2

Which of the following writers wrote poems in common meter about the people and surroundings of Amherst, Massachusetts?

3

In poetry written in trochaic tetrameter, each line contains how many feet?

4

A haiku, a three line poem with lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables, was developed in the literary tradition of which country?

5

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality

The above stanza of a poem is an example of which of the following?

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